She was homeschooled by her father, so I’m going to give her a grammar pass. Also, considering that she dosn’t have much formal education, I am actually pleasantly surprised by her engaging and clear writing style!

thank you! I knew they had to have made some kind of self referential greys gardens reference at some point!

I thought the costumes worked very much in the realm of who they were supposed to be — thirfy but whimsical/ educated but poor/ fallen from wealth. Lorelai’s story is pretty Greys Gardens, isn’t it? Does it make sense that they would look kind of like Little Edie minus of the alopecia? Also, they dressed pretty much…

Ever since I updated to Yosemite, I have the damndest time finding the most recent version of whatever word/powerpoint/pdf files that I’ve been working on. When I search for the file name, the first thing that shows up might be a version that I edited two weeks ago, while the latest version is either buried somewhere…

When I look back on it, its pretty classic recipe, right? Like, when my sane friends were like “that is creepy, yo” I would jokingly say “Oh, yeah, Mommy issues!!” but it wasn’t until graduating, finding that I had difficulty having romantic relationships with peers, and going to therapy that I was like. Oh. . .Yeah.…

Me too. I had a similarly dysfunctional and neglectful family (mom suicidal, dad alcoholic— also masked by being upper middle class). I was 19 and started dating a 50 year old teacher at my college because I just desperately wanted someone to think I was smart and charming and important and . . .worthy. Of course my…

Riiiight? Like, my husband also clocks the insane work hours that Fallon probably does (he’s a medical resident) but his downtime is all at home with me and baby . . .or asleep. And I get ragey about the long and weird hours . . . if all his off time was spent drinking, divorce-town for sure.

Hillary is a pragmatist compared to Bernie’s idealism. On the actual issues? Consistent Gun control is a major distinction and a plus for Clinton. Also, she was way ahead of anyone’s curve on health care reform/accessible health care. She knows more about foreign policy and has proven herself a very good diplomat—…

Yeah, the the writing in that first paragraph is a bit confusing. First, is it an authorized or unauthorized biography? Secondly, I think what is meant is: We all assumed that when the elevator thing went down it was over RiRi, because the RUMORS about Jay-Z and her were from way back, when Umbrella came out.

Another random consideration: alphabetization privilege. Its real, people. My last name starts with an “A” and I have benefited enormously from being “front of the line”/”head of the class”/”Top of the roster” in many instances. Contrariwise, my husband’s name starts with a “Y” (which some families spell with a J or…

“wearing a grey scarf and a look that suggests the Prozac is not strong enough”

It would have to be colon cancer. It bothered me how little fiber they ate on that show. I just kept thinking about how weak and few their BMs must have been.

Yeah. There is the whole deal when Rory wants to go to Yale and Lorelei is like “but WE have always talked about Harvard; WE’VE been planning on Harvard” etc, and they never really explored the destructive ways that Lorelei is kind of a high-pressure mom living through her daughter. . .I mean, I guess Rory and she had…

can you explain this timeline again? so you’re saying you’ve been with him for five years, and meanwhile (the whole time) he’s been with this other woman and engaged?

I’m sure (my PhD says so) that most nations in the “free world” benefited tremendously from the labor of slaves, either because of being slave owners themselves, or part of an empire that enslaved and shipped 10-15 million of them. Americans may be arrogant as HELL, but we are not the “only” nation that has achieved…

That horrible movie with Eddie Murphy in fat suits . . .The Flubs? The Glubs? The Grunks? I can’t even be bothered to look it up.

She’d catch more shit for whining “it sucks to be a princess” so good for her!

Agreed— meghan trainor is probably statistically “average” sized for an American woman, so I also find it strange that she has made herself some voice of plus sized fashion. Like, I’m pretty sure she could find something that fits in most stores, even designer labels. But yes, “overweight” needs to GTFO (underweight…

Yeah, while I don’t particularly like Kobe Bryant, this has absolutely nothing to do with him, and getting his name raking in the mud for it is really unfair. No one (especially those not even in the room? Even in contact with each other) forces anyone else to have a drug overdose.

Thank you for this much-needed disclaimer and explanation. The law suit dosn’t seem so frivolous if you read it as “Affection Aunt forced to use beloved nephew as pawn in insurance claim”